As for the Corelle, I tell brides to avoid it because it NEVER breaks and you'll be stuck with what you liked when you were a naive child bride, not the sophisticate you turn into when you hit 40/50/60. *snort* Yeah, once my kids got beyond dish-breaking age I ditched the stuff at Goodwill and got the breakable stuff so I could change dishes when my taste changed. "Oh, honey, look how many plates are chipped or cracked. We need new ones."

Got my package from imebears last week and the pink Kindle monster fairly leapt from the box. Very creative with its tail doing double duty as the handle. The little pincushion is cute, the granddog had a bit of a chew on the fuzzy part but I saved it. Whew. Good thing she only plays with things.

Finished my swap today (never met a deadline I didn't want to meet in person--at the last second!) and will mail it off as soon as I've posted here. Thanks, imebears, for the monster.

I am humble in your presence. I have done one sweater front and back in Fair Isle and I don't care if I ever do another stitch of that demon technique. My hands ache just thinking about it. Your sweater is bee-utiful.

When we pointed out mistakes in our work my grandpa always said, "A man running for his life will never notice it." I think your afghan is lovely. Only a dirty rat fink would look over it to find a miss-crossed cable.